I spend AT LEAST that long on most nights. My homework load can be anywhere from 3-7 hours (with 6-7 being more extreme and happening rarely...). But I am also taking 16 hours in the quarter system, so I am much more time crunched than those on the semester system.

I'm with kirstin. A lot of times I spend more than that in an evening. For my class with the most reading, torts, I'd spend several hours one day on the weekend trying to get the week's readings done. The readings for the other classes has been lighter, and one doesn't give the readings in advance.

Well, I had to cover volumes of information for my previous life ( anesthesia ) and that has helped some, but this type of studying is really very different. With medicine, you apply rules, however they are not open for as much interpretation LOL. Thanks for the replies. Later, Prolodoc

During the week, after class ends around...5-ish i grab a bit, chit chat for a minute with fellow classmates, then I'm usually in the library from 6 to midnight. If I'm lucky, I get through the reading for 2 classes.

On the weekends, it will be typical for me to go in around 10am and stay until midnight. That's when I can usually get a little ahead in some of the readings or go back and read the concepts that I just went over in the E&E's or CrunchTime to make sure I'm getting it.

So you're not alone. everybody I know puts in crazy hours. The sad part is that even with all that, you still cannot cover every law, every case, every doctrine, etc.